Environmental category: 9736 books
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From meat consumption to automobile production to hydropower, Vital Signs, Volume 20 documents over two dozen trends that are shaping our future in concise analyses and clear tables and graphs. The twentieth volume of the Worldwatch Institute series demonstrates that while remarkable progress has...
by Heikki Torvela
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Due to the threat of a possible global climate change and the greenhouse effect caused by constituents of anthropogenic origin in the atmosphere, air quality has become a major environmental issue. As a consequence, emissions into the atmosphere need to be monitored and controlled. Measurement of...
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money
U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them.
Readers...
Facing Up to Global Warming
What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date...
Landscape Indicators
Assessing and Monitoring Landscape Quality
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
In recent years EU policy towards the ‘landscape’ has become better defined, whereas at the same time the notion of ‘landscape’ itself remains elusive. The need for indicators to evaluate and monitor the effects of landscape policies and plans is urgent. What is more, landscape is one of...
Soils, Ecosystem Processes, and Agricultural Development
Tropical Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture. The chapters describe and analyze the...
Expanding Peace Ecology: Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity and Gender
Perspectives of IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book has peer-reviewed chapters by scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the USA that were presented to the Ecology and Peace Commission (EPC) of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in November 2012 in Japan. The chapters address these themes: Expanding Peace...
Natural Visions
The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Walden Pond. The Grand Canyon.Yosemite National Park. Throughout the twentieth century, photographers and filmmakers created unforgettable images of these and other American natural treasures. Many of these images, including the work of Ansel Adams, continue to occupy a prominent place in the American...
Planet Ocean
A Conversation with Paul Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Veteran
environmental activist and Whale Wars host
Paul Watson offers in this interview a provocative and revolutionary view of
the state of an environment in crisis. The planet may survive our environmental
destruction, he argues, but humans may not. Focused on protecting oceans,
preventing the loss...
The Green Amendment
Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The Constitutional Change We Need to Protect Our Priceless Natural ResourcesFor decades, activists have relied on federal and state legislation to fight for a cleaner environment. And for decades, they've been fighting a losing battle. The sad truth is, our laws are designed to accommodate pollution...
Spoil Island
Reading the Makeshift Archipelago
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates...
Nature Across Cultures
Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal...
World Ecological Degradation
Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000 years, Sing C. Chew shows that these processes are...
Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Rethinking City-River Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned...